How far is Uranus from the Sun in astronomical miles?

Answer 1

Venus is the nearest planet to Earth in distance at about 41 million km (25.4 million mi) away at its closest approach.
Depending on where Earth and Venus are in their respective orbits, it can be

anything between roughly 25 million miles and 160 million miles.

Answer 2

Average and Closest Distances

Pluto is an average of 5,913,520,000 km (39.5AU) from the Sun. Earth is an average of 149,600,000 km (1.0AU) from the sun. This would indicate a distance of over 5.7 billion kilometers or 38.5 AU between the two.

However, Pluto's orbit is highly elliptical and varies from 4.4 to 7.4 billion kilometers (30 to 49 AU) from the Sun. And given its 17° inclination to the ecliptic, it would seldom if ever be in a direct line with the Earth and the Sun.

Should Pluto ever be near its closest point to Earth's orbit when the Earth is also near that point, the closest approach between the two would be 4.3 billion kilometers (29 AU).

AU's Between Pluto and Earth

That's a difficult question to answer precisely. Pluto's average distance from the Sun is 39.4 AU. (An AU is an Astronomical Unit and is defined as the average distance between the center of the Earth and the center of the Sun.) One AU equals 92,955,807 million miles, or about 93 million miles, but Pluto's distance from the Sun ranges from 29.7 to 49.3 AU.

So, depending on the orbits of Pluto and Earth, the distance between the two could be anywhere from 28.7 AU (Earth directly between Pluto and Sun when Pluto is closest to the Sun) to 50.3 AU (Earth directly opposite Sun from Pluto when Pluto is farthest from the Sun). However, keep in mind that an AU is an average and that Earth's actual orbit varies anywhere from 91 to 94.5 million miles.

As Earth has a slightly eccentric orbit but Pluto has a very elliptical orbit, it varies. So the closest distance between the Earth and Pluto occurs when Earth is at its most distant from the Sun, and Pluto is at its closest. And the Sun, Earth and Pluto are lined up in a perfect line. When this happens, Pluto and Earth would be separated by 4.2 billion km.

Answer 3

Just like every planet in the solar system, Pluto (the "dwarf planet")

is very nearly the shape of a sphere (a ball).

Its diameter is 1,413 miles (2,274 km).

That's almost 35% smaller than the diameter of our moon ...

2,160 miles (3,476 km).

Answer 4

The North Star (Polaris) is around 430 light years away. Its distance is on a much larger scale than the distances between objects in our solar system. Its a bit like saying "How far ways is Scotland from here", then saying "How far away is Scotland from that table over there on the other side of the room".

Answer 5

The distance constantly varies as the planets orbit, Venus being closer to the Sun and orbiting in a shorter period than Earth. They can be from 38.1 million kilometers (23.7 million miles) apart at their closest to as far as 261 million km (162 million miles) apart when they are on opposite sides of the Sun.

At a minimum, Venus is about 38.1 million kilometers away(0.255 AU), when Venus is its farthest from the Sun and Earth is its closest. (This only happens every hundred years or so.) Every 584 days, Venus is at its relative closest in its orbit, which will be between 38.1 and 44.6 million kilometers. When Venus is on the far side of the Sun from Earth, it can be as far as 261 million kilometers away.
That varies widely, depending on which part of the orbit the Earth and Venus is. At its closest - during an inferior conjunction - Venus is at a distance of about 41 million kilometers.

Answer 6

The distance from Earth to Venus varies by where each planet is in its orbit. They were at a minimum distance of about 0.3 AU on June 6, 2012 during the "Transit of Venus" when Venus was directly between the Earth and the Sun. Venus is now speeding on ahead and moving away from the Earth. It will reach its maximum distance in about 5 months (November, 2012), when it will be directly behind the Sun, at a distance of about 1.7 AU.

Answer 7

Average distance from Sun to Venus: 108 million km

Average distance from Sun to Earth: 150 million km

Thus, the distance between Venus and Earth can vary between about (150 minus 108) and (150 plus 108) million kilometers, depending on whether they are both on the same side of the Sun, or on opposite sides.

Answer 8

Uranus revolves around the Sun once every 84 Earth years. Its average distance from the Sun is roughly 3 billion km, or approximately or 1.875 billion miles from the sun. Uranus is approximately 20 times greater distant to the sun than is earth.

Answer 9

Venus is a planet orbiting the Sun, just as the Earth is. Therefore, the distance between the Earth and Venus is constantly changing.

At its closest, when Venus is between the Earth and the Sun, Venus is .28 AU from Earth, and at its most distant point when Venus is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth, Venus is about 1.35AU away.

At this moment - 7:41 PM PDT, May 14, 2012 - Venus is .355459 AU from the Earth. I know this because I have a free planetarium program called Stellarium. Stellarium is free and open-source, and is available at the link below.

Answer 10

Venus is 0.28 astronomical units from Earth.